Lise - just reread your post and noticed you mentioned shields. I used them for a couple of weeks because of bad attachment due to a tongue tie. I started them at about 5 weeks though I think. I found it hard to believe that he would attach without them but eventually he did after a couple of days of weaning him off them. Also their attachment improves as time goes on and they get bigger (even with flat nipple) so you may not have to use them forever if you are unhappy with them.
What a refreshing and funny convo you are having atm Poppy and Marcellus. As I write, I have just fed my two hourly feeding terror and she has sprawled out upside down over my lap, arching her back, because that's what she likes to do after a feed now apparently
Yep, I was doing feed upon feed and I still get the look like "well what took you so bloody long?" when you just offered her a feed 5 minutes earlier and she refused point blank, but now it's like you have been starving her. It's hard to read the signs sometimes still as I said to DH lastnight, it looks like I'm forcing her but I'm trying to work out if that's the "don't want it" cry or "give it to me now" cry. It was the latter as she practically inhaled before my top was even open! I think wind still plays a part too, either from what I eat, or just her system, so I still have to go back and remember the basics of burping and working her legs, or just get her up and moving. It makes sense but it doesn't always come into your mind when you think it should just be a smooth feed.
routine schmoutine..I agree, although I do recall 12 weeks being a time where the really bad wind started to settle as her system got stronger and she could pass it through herself. NOw there's nothing funnier to her than feeling those little bottom burps rumbling under her (like right now OMG!) and she feels really proud of what she can do. For a kid who can't hear, she still enjoys alot of tactile sensations like the vibrations of a good fart and oh dear, I've never seen a kid blow more big wet raspberries.
i was addressing a Lion's Club meeting this week and I'm standing at the mike explaining our situation, and her Dad has her on his lap and she is blowing raspberries at me non-stop she's actually quite useless in the cutest possible way. she gets tangled up in things and just can't get out, like I put her on the ground to work out her wind a minute ago (it worked!) and she is now completely stuck untder the clothes airing rack. If she can get under it with her legs, she will, but she can't get out. I digress...good news....the Lions Club rang us back after the meeting and want to support us by paying our travel costs for Jazzy's therapy. I was so happy I cried from sheer relief. I knew it would come from local community and not government agencies and I didn't waiver in my belief that somewhere, somehow, a window would open for us. We don't need much, I mean it's not like we can ask for the $100,000 plus for the surgery, but the therapy costs are a huge deal and are setting us further behind than ever before. We have a few more trips to Melb before the surgery now too, so that's going to be a great help. I'm feeling much better now and all on track for November.
Janie, it's a me post too, but it's hard to find time to speak to eve3ryoneand again I have a squirmy wormy on my lap eating her foot. I know what you mean about the fear getting less. I guess it's like a lot of things and now it's more of a contained fear for you, not hysterical and terrifying I imagine.
Gotta go resume feeding and hopefully get a nap out of jazzy.
Oh and by the way, I think I 'll be in the same boat with the baby that never goes down for a sleep on her own. It's boob and me for now. Don't know what I'll do when she weans but we do what works for now hey?
Hehehe I have a little monkey who is totally routine-less too! He sets his own routine, and every day is different! And BW he was in special care too for a week! I guess he's just contrary & stubborn just like Mummy I guess it goes to show every baby is different. One more on the "Burn the Books" bandwagon! Of course they're not gonna follow the textbook, Don't they know that babies can't read? LOL
Hope you're all well. Been lurking but not posting. I very rarely get the laptop open these days, generally just read posts on my phone while feeding, and posting via iPhone is rather annoying LOL.
We're all good here, although still dealing with the teething monster Hoping something will cut through soon. DS is madly trying to sit up. He can pull himself up from a recline position but can't hold it just yet. Also when you lay him on his belly his arms & legs go like the clappers, but when he realises he's not going anywhere he gets rather cranky!
I just have to say, once again, how totally in love I am with my boy! This is just the best job ever! And all the hard times & sleepless nights are totally worth it! Waking up & looking over the side of the cot to see that grinning little face just makes our day, even if it's at 4am!
Hope you all have a great weekend! We are very excited, Daddy has his first full weekend at home in months! We can't wait to spend it with him, and we're having family portraits done tomorrow to boot!
I guess that proves it - Sam is just that kind of kid that loves routine. I remember Sam doing all those things too, BOC - but when he was MUCH older than Jagger is now! Looks like you'll have an early mover on your hands!
And tonsilitis still sucks - both me and Sam for the third time in the last two months. I never got it before this - it's horrible!
Hello all,
Long time no posting, or much reading! I've gone back to work 4 days a week (needed to for my sanity as much as I love our DS), and with that and farm and getting organised for work...everything else just drops off. BUT am trying to get back into do some 'me' stuff - including BB
Looks like lots has been happening, so will have some catching up to do, but till then
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BW. Good luck with your decision.
she's actually quite useless in the cutest possible way. she gets tangled up in things and just can't get out, like I put her on the ground to work out her wind a minute ago (it worked!) and she is now completely stuck untder the clothes airing rack. If she can get under it with her legs, she will, but she can't get out. I digress.
..good news....the Lions Club rang us back after the meeting and want to support us by paying our travel costs for Jazzy's therapy. I was so happy I cried from sheer relief. I knew it would come from local community and not government agencies and I didn't waiver in my belief that somewhere, somehow, a window would open for us. We don't need much, I mean it's not like we can ask for the $100,000 plus for the surgery, but the therapy costs are a huge deal and are setting us further behind than ever before. We have a few more trips to Melb before the surgery now too, so that's going to be a great help. I'm feeling much better now and all on track for November.
I guess it goes to show every baby is different. One more on the "Burn the Books" bandwagon! Of course they're not gonna follow the textbook, Don't they know that babies can't read? LOL
Hoping something will cut through soon. DS is madly trying to sit up. He can pull himself up from a recline position but can't hold it just yet. Also when you lay him on his belly his arms & legs go like the clappers, but when he realises he's not going anywhere he gets rather cranky!
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